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21-Year-Old Admits to Planning Terror Attack at Taylor Swift Concert
April 28, 2026
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TAS2024/GettyA 21-year-old pleaded guilty on Tuesday to plotting a terror attack at an August 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. The attacker, an Austrian national referred to as Beren A, was caught thanks to CIA intelligence a day before he could execute his alleged plan to “kill as many people as possible” with knives and homemade explosives. The three Eras Tour shows scheduled at the Ernst Happel Stadium were canceled out of an abundance of caution following the threat.
“Having our Vienna shows canceled was devastating,” Swift said in an Instagram post two weeks after 195,000 fans, who were slated to attend the shows, had to skip the festivities. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows,” she added. Beren A, alleged by prosecutors to be aligned with ISIS, faces terror charges and a charge of membership in a terrorist organization. He is also linked to a separate terrorism plot in the Middle East in which he and another person, referred to as Arda K, were plotting simultaneous attacks in Istanbul, Dubai, and Mecca.Read it at The GuardianRead more at The Daily Beast.
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